(AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File) Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, left, and Defense Minister Walter Braga Netto attend a ceremony honoring military athletes who participated in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic ...

BYD and Jinjiang did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Friday. Jinjiang rejected the Brazilian authorities' assessment on Monday that the workers at the site in the eastern state ...

In a social media post on Thursday, which was reposted by a BYD spokesperson, Jinjiang Group rejected the Brazilian authorities' accusations about the work conditions at the Bahia site.

Brazilian labor authorities said Wednesday that they had found 163 Chinese nationals working in “slavery-like conditions” at a construction site for a BYD-owned factory in Brazil’s Bahia state.